We've noticed that our service no longer works properly, so we're going to charge you more for it.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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“I can complain about Starlink raising their prices, but it’s the only genuine option we have,” former Nebraska state senator and Republican Julie Slama told the Washington Post last month. “Once they have rural customers on their service with no meaningful alternatives, they’re free to raise prices at will.”
Should we pull up the record and see who voted to allow that to happen in Nebraska while on the subject?
"We only have the option to use this hyper expensive private satellite service... because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit."
"I can complain about Starlink raising their prices, but it's the only genuine option we have," former Nebraska state senator and Republican Julie Slama told the Washington Post last month. "Once they have rural customers on their service with no meaningful alternatives, they're free to raise prices at will."
Yes, that is what everyone has been warning about for years and why we want the communication monopolies torn down... Fucking leopards running loose out here eating faces and they still just kinda shrug and go "wish there was an alternative to letting all the leopards run free eating our faces".
To be fair, if you've ever had to use HughesNet, a leopard eating your face is a welcome change of pace.
Brother... You speak the truth...
The country that invented the internet... has the worst internet infrastructure in the developed world. Worse than some developing countries too. Astonishing.
the US didn't invent the internet. yes the US made ARPNET, which is the underlying functions that the internet was built upon. but the internet that we know today wasn’t created in the US, the WORLD wide web was created in Switzerland in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research). the world wide web, or the internet, uses a lot of the same protocols that ARPNET created. but ARPNET is not and was not world wide until Sir Tim used the same protocols to allow regular people to traverse ARPNET from around the world. the US built the underlying tech, but Sir Tim Berners-Lee and CERN built the internet on top.
No, we in Germany are almost as bad for almost those prices.
That's more astonishing to me.
Is it really??
I used to be jealous of some friends with their 10mbit symmetric lines while I was getting a whopping 4mbps (down only) on cable. (Obviously.... not recent).
astonishing
No, its pretty in character.
How could someone who knows all about computers and networking not predict the logistics problems for such projects? /s
The world's first trillionaire doesn't get to call anyone else greedy.
Clearly it does.
That tweet is almost impressively stupid.
What the fuck does the download size of Wikipedia have to do with anything?
I can also fit some of the largest LLMs on my phone. Where is all that AI investment going to???
Bad example, maybe.
I just can't imagine having such excessive wealth and not saying "eh, whatever" when someone tells me I'm losing money on some internet fees.
You fucker, you could make the world at least a tiny bit better for billions of people at virtually no expense to you, but you just keep playing your stupid fucking rich manchildren games with your billionaire parasite buddies.
Keep grinding bro, maybe this way you'll get used to the feeling of having your bones crushed in the grinder.
How else you get to inflate the stock price?
You got to get the returns on it.
You don't get that wealthy in the first place by not gobbling up every fucking penny you have a chance to. You think he's just going to take the dub and stop?
It makes more sense when you realize his wealth is all smoke and mirrors based on a shared lie.
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Poor Elon, down to his last Trillion
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